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Long time beer brewer, first time mead uh....maker? brewer? meader? Anyway, I sort of just winged it, figuring this is probably like beer making, and it will be mead in the end as long as I don't get an infection. True? Or are there any real gotchas that are not just tales and...

I've got a bad feeling, but here goes: My 2ish year old keggerator, a Magic Chef, won't get below about 54 degrees. I took the temp controller off of it to use in my son's science project, and when I hooked it back up, 54 is all I got. I haven't been drinking much beer lately, and didn't...

I've decided to become very pissed off about "alot". Not a lot. I don't have all that much to be pissed off about. Not a lot pisses me off, really. Just alot.

So I want to build a CFC to make the cooling process run itself, but I'm a bit foggy on the details. As far as I can tell, my options are: 1) drain the hot wort through the CFC and directly into the fermenter, possibly through a strainer to catch some of the break/hops material 2)...

OK, so I'm not a huge wheat beer fan at all, and I've brewed zero of them. I know very little about them. But, I'm hosting another poker party/beer slugging gathering in a couple months and I know a couple of the guys at least would appreciate having something like this available. Plus, I...

OK, so maybe I took a couple weeks off from the forum or something, but I'm lost on the whole Beer Reverend Poster (BRP, or burp for short) thing. I started out with Revvy, who was ubiquitous in the forums. Now I have RevIP, who I swear I've never seen before about two weeks ago, but has...

Well, I knew I'd do this at some point. I kegged a beer tonight and shook gas into the beer before storing. Yep, I forgot to purge the air before shaking. I did purge the air a little bit prior to siphoning the beer into the keg, so hopefully the CO2 rose with the beer to the top. I had...

This is my latest baby - an English style amber ale - I'm not sure if I'd classify this as an American Amber or an ESB. Either way, it is awesome. My poker crew agreed with me and killed this keg in record time:drunk: I'll brew it again as soon as a bucket opens up. It's an awesome session...

Just threw this together quick in Paint. I'll have to figure out one of those fancy pants illustration programs to do it right. It'll be a big ol' IIPA probably.:

I just found this show this year - season 2. Anybody watching? I find it fascinating. I'm rooting for the Japanese team.

I'm going to brew up a simple stout tomorrow using Roasted Barley, Choco, Carapils and Flaked Barley to go along with the 2-row. It'll be approx 1.048ish I think. It's similar to O'Flannagans standard stout recipe in the database. I was planning on using S-04, but I'll be making an S-05...

and I got to thinkin about life and the world and I couldn't come up with one superhero that could defeat Darth Vader in a fair battle. Anybody? I mean, that force control thingy is just not fair, right?

I read on georgerrmartin.com that HBO will be filming a pilot for A Game Of Thrones. I'm really looking forward to this:ban: He'll never finish writing the series IMO, but at least we get to see Volume 1 on screen:rockin:

Here in this thread I will be hosting an Irish Dry Stout competition between three English heavyweights: Guinness, Beamish and Murphy's. I will pour three beers - one each - and drink alternating sips with bread or something betwixt. After three beers I'll likely be half passed out and in...

I'm really starting to get bothered by my efficiency points loss from my kettle to my bucket. I'm siphoning from my kettle to my bucket so I can leave the break material behind, and I'm losing about 20 points of efficiency. Today's batch was 92% into my kettle, 72% into my bucket. Is...

How is this beer to style? I haven't sampled many Irish Reds. I quite liked the beer, but I was expecting less sweetness and more roastiness - more roasted grains and less crystal I guess. In any case, I'd drink it again.

I'm a bit cornfuzed here. If I'm siphoning wort from my BK into my fermenter, which volume do I use to figure brewhouse efficiency? Do I want the volume in the kettle with all the trub, etc., or do I want the final volume in the bucket? I assume I need the BK volume since that's the...

Am I the only loser watching this? Best season in quite a while.

I think Deadliest Catch started last night and I forgot to DVR it. Anybody watch?

At least well over a year for even lighter pale ales. I found several bottles from a couple batches of slightly modified EdWort's Haus Ales in the back of my fridge. One batch was bottled last June, the other batch was bottled March 2, '08. I sampled one and it tasted like a brand new...